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Senator Hale and Representative Hersey of Maine, to tender a 15-lb. salmon, "first-of-the-season" from the Penobscot River...
Nebuchadnezzar lay in the sun and ate grass. And good grass it was in days when few footsteps crushed its tender shoots and no motor exhaust laid a blight upon it. Not only its hardships but also its responsibilities have so increased that science must come to its aid. Last fortnight the University of Illinois announced that its scientists would work-with Erlenmeyer flask and petrie dish-on the problem of maintaining a satisfactory turf on football fields. The athletic association will make a 90-square checkerboard out of the gridiron. Running in crosswise strips will be nine different grasses...
Next year's prospects center around a strong nucleus. The team, however, is losing the services of its brilliant goal tender, Joseph Morrill '28. The most likely candidate for honors in this field is M. G. Gammack '31, illuminary of this year's Freshman team. For forward line material there are Tudor, Giddens, W. T. Wetmore '30, and C. B. Lakin '30. For defense men there are A. S. Bigelow '30 and H. W. Bigelow '30. G. C. Holbrook '30 seems a likely candidate for the center position...
...Girl in Every Port is really What Price Glory? translated from arid and terrestrial irony to marine gaiety of the most salty and miscellaneous nature. Nobody could be more charming than Louise Brooks, that clinging and tender little barnacle from the docks of Marseilles. Director Howard Hawks and his entire cast, especially Robert Armstrong, deserve bouquets and kudos...
...reporters wrote the story of Mlle. Roseray's inadequate demise with a tender and child-like sorrow. Their pathetic little fictions, when completed, were not consigned to wastebaskets by intelligent city editors; instead they were flapped onto front pages, otherwise almost bare of news, as is customary on metropolitan Monday mornings. The New York World had a picture spread. The Times had a front page and breakover. The American made it the day's feature. The tabloids, preparing to print pictures of a meal sack labeled "This is what the corpse of Mlle. Roseray looked like when...